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Posted on 8/14/24 at 3:39 pm
Posted by IamLSU02
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 8/14/24 at 3:39 pm
I've never tried posting pics on here before, so hopefully I did it right. This is a younger buck I had on camera early last year. He was a good looking young buck that was hanging around a good bit. November 11, 2023 he showed up with the gash in his left front shoulder, and received the nickname "Zombie". All I can assume is that he was shot(poorly) on some neighboring property with a broadhead. I watched him all hunting season last year on camera, and it was cool to watch the stages of his recovery. He limped for a while and by the end of January, I wasn't sure he was going to make it. He was pretty run down and skinny, and seemed to be laboring a lot more on videos. Thinking back now, I believe that had more to do more with the end of his rut. He has shown back up on camera this year, and looks healthy as ever. Damn near a perfectly symmetrical 10 pt.

Anyone else have any better idea of what they think he may have been shot with?




This post was edited on 8/14/24 at 3:49 pm
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
177028 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 3:41 pm to
He should be allowed to live and frick without ever being shot at again.
Posted by Catahoula20LSU
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2011
2938 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 3:54 pm to
If you do happen to kill him, don’t think I would eat that meat. Tough SOB.
Posted by Ol boy
Member since Oct 2018
4089 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 3:57 pm to
quote:

Anyone else have any better idea of what they think he may have been shot with?

I don’t think a broadhead would damage that much tissue and remove that much skin and tissue.
I think it was grazing ahot at fairly close range ~2800-3000fps that skimmed the neck entered the edge of the scapula and “blew up”
Bad shot that someone blamed cartridge or bullet as the failure.
And yeah they are tough, I have personally seen on two separate occasions broadheads inside the body cavity completely wrapped with cartilage and the deer appeared healthy.
This post was edited on 8/14/24 at 4:00 pm
Posted by White Bear
Deer-Thirty
Member since Jul 2014
17389 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 4:10 pm to
Looks like Tikka 6-5 Creedmore damage from here.
Posted by IamLSU02
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2013
165 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 4:15 pm to
Yea. I've cleaned a deer and was cutting the backstrap out of him and the knife kept "clinking" on something. Ended up being a broadhead and about 1" of arrow shaft broke off up against his spine.

Posted by WillFerrellisking
Member since Jun 2019
2716 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 5:39 pm to
Could be a bullet, fella in club last year has video of him grazing a buck and it ripped open a hole like that. After bringing in 2 sets of dogs and no recovery I guess it survived.

If this woulda been his right shoulder instead of left I woulda though it was same deer.
Posted by Jack Daniel
Gold member
Member since Feb 2013
29039 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 5:57 pm to
Don’t know what did it but a broadhead definitely didn’t do that.
Posted by Ol boy
Member since Oct 2018
4089 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 6:59 pm to
quote:

the knife kept "clinking" on something. Ended up being a broadhead and about 1" of arrow shaft broke off up against his spine

Some ol boy swore he “will never ever shoot faucking mechanicals again”
98% of the lost deer that live are bad shots 1% is bad bullets or broadheads and 1% are miracle deer that defied all odds and survived the odds.
I’m not counting the deer that a dog finds 75-100yd from point of impact that’s perfect bullet broadhead job and poor woodsmanship.
Posted by Hondo Blacksheep
Member since Jul 2022
2973 posts
Posted on 8/14/24 at 10:19 pm to
Any chance that's CWD? I've seen a couple cases back in Virginia and it looks more or less like that.
Posted by windmill
Prairieville, La
Member since Dec 2005
7727 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 2:41 am to
Jeepers! That's a helluva wound! I'm surprised he survived. He should be breeding stock only
Posted by Che Boludo
Member since May 2009
21874 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 6:56 am to
Damn, nasty wound. Infection alone should have killed him. That's crazy. Looks like a damn mountain lion got a hold of him.

Broad heads are nasty weapons.
Posted by Jack Daniel
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Member since Feb 2013
29039 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 7:58 am to
Cmon man
Posted by southside
SW of Monroe
Member since Aug 2018
647 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:06 am to
Could've been a head on shot and the bullet lacerated rather than penetrated.
Posted by IamLSU02
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2013
165 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:07 am to
Definitely not CWD. He was on camera perfect one day, and the next day he looked like that. The camera I was capturing him on pretty regularly was only about 200 yds from my northernmost property line. After that, I have no idea if its pure coincidence or he did it on purpose, but the only other time I caught him on that same camera the rest of the year was the initial picture I got of him with that wound. He mainly hung around an area about 3/4 mile south of there the rest of the year.
Posted by Pvt Hudson
Member since Jan 2013
4803 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:28 am to
You sure that wasn’t caused by a predator? Bear, puma, gator?
Posted by Hawk7723
Member since Apr 2020
77 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 10:15 am to




Got this on game camera a few years ago
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
23758 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 10:35 am to
That's an incredible wound to live from. Can't believe he didn't get an infection that killed him.

I'll never forget when I was 10 we went back to Illinois to gun hunt with my grandfather and his friends. My grandfather's best friend who was probably 65 or so at the time used a double barrel and I don't know if he had slugs or buckshot, I think slugs because I don't remember anyone that I knew using buckshot in Illinois. But he shot a small buck opening morning and we all helped look for it around 11am. Maybe 200 yards from his shot there was a barbwire fence that had some intestines hanging from it. We blood trailed that deer for a good half mile or more before losing it around a neighbors property.
Posted by IamLSU02
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2013
165 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 10:50 am to
No puma, bear(reported black bears, but I've never seen one), gator in the area. I had/have a bunch of other pictures, and you can pretty much see where something traveled through the side of the neck and came out at the shoulder.
Posted by Pandy Fackler
Member since Jun 2018
21114 posts
Posted on 8/15/24 at 6:44 pm to
Wild animals in general have an extremely high tolerance to pain and are extremely resistant to injury and infection. The wild, no matter what sort of wild it may be, is a high stress environment.
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